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Understanding Assignments

 

Overview

Making a POINT: Understanding Writing Assignments (handout)

Making a POINT (poster/infographic)

Writing is a Process (Purdue OWL)

Writing is a Conversation (from the Purdue OWL)

Writing is discipline-specific (from the Purdue OWL)

 

Understanding the writing situation

Writing and Rhetorical Situations (from the Purdue OWL)--PowerPoint--simplified

Understanding the Writing Situation In-depth (from the WAC Clearinghouse)

Understanding Why Audience Matters (from the UNC Writing Center)

 

Beginning your writing and research process

Writing Strong Research Questions (infographic from the MWC)

Explore a Research Question - Research Paper Planner: Guide - Guides at Baylor University

Assignment timeline calculator (from UM)

What Good Writers Know (from the Yale Writing Center)

 

See also "Help with specific types of writing projects" (from the Moody Writing Center)

Common Writing Assignments (from the Purdue OWL)